. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ten,That harry the Ladye o Heavens hen ! for such is the name given to our favourite by boys, even 1 See Popular Rhymes of Scotland, by R. Chambers. 2 The Wren had a sacred character amongst our Celtic ancestors.—Hen-dersons Folk Lore of the Northern Counties, p. 125. THE WREN. 107 when engaged in the unhallowed sport of bird-nesting. Itis also included in the following list of birds, whose nest itis deemed unlucky to
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ten,That harry the Ladye o Heavens hen ! for such is the name given to our favourite by boys, even 1 See Popular Rhymes of Scotland, by R. Chambers. 2 The Wren had a sacred character amongst our Celtic ancestors.—Hen-dersons Folk Lore of the Northern Counties, p. 125. THE WREN. 107 when engaged in the unhallowed sport of bird-nesting. Itis also included in the following list of birds, whose nest itis deemed unlucky to molest:— The Laverock and the Lintie, The Robin and the Wren,If ye harry their nests, Ye11 never thrive again. ^ 1 See Popular Rhymes of Scotland, by E. Chambers, New Edition, p. 187,1888. For further particulars regarding the popular rhymes and superstitionsconnected with the Wren, see Macgillivrays British Birds, vol. iii. p. 19 ;Yarrells British Birds, 4th Edition, vol. i. pp. 465, 466 ; Folk Lore of theNorthern Counties, pp. 123, 124, 125; Folk Lore of British Birds, pp. 35-43;Faune Populaire de la France, Eugene Rolland, t. ii., Les Oiseaux sauvages,pp. PASSERES. { 108 ) MOTACILLID^. THE PIED WAGTAIL. WATER WAGTAIL, WHITE WAGTAIL, BLACK AND WHITE WAGTAIL,WINTER WAGTAIL, PEGGY WASH-DISH, DISH-WASHER. Motacilla ^t aOlater (Ifllafftail, %^t SflliUp dtllatct: JLfllafftail, What art thou made off—air or light or dew fI have no time to tell you, if I tail—ask that—perhaps may solve the matter ;I ve missed three flies already by this clatter. Montgomery, Birds. Spare my grey beard, you Wagtail! Shakespeare, King Lear. This beautiful and elegant bird may be considered a regularmigrant in Berwickshire, generally arriving in considerablenumbers on the sea-coast near Cockburnspath and Old-cambus about the middle of March, and a little later in theinland districts of the county. It leaves us in largeflocks for the south in September and October,
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